Introduction : The ward to come -- Stop "play[ing] pattycake with the whole issue" : citizen calls for civil defense -- "Between the devil and the deep" : civil defense and the early Cold War political landscape -- The man in the white lab coat : the uses of scientists and scientific authority -- The fallout from fallout : the peacetime threat -- Atomic America : the expert public and nuclear dissent -- Conclusion : Renouncing the nuclear in nuclear citizenship
Summary
"Examines how American civic life and ideas about citizenship changed in response to the threat of nuclear attack in the early years of the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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